Trump Invites Palestinian Leader Abbas to White House ‘Soon’

US President Donald Trump has invited Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to visit the White House “soon”, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said on Friday.

During their first phone call since Trump’s inauguration in January, the US president invited Abbas “to visit the White House soon to discuss ways to resume the (Palestinian-Israeli) ‘political process’,” Wafa quoted Abbas’s spokesman as saying.

The spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeina, said that Trump stressed his “commitment to a ‘peace process’ that would lead to a real peace between Palestinians and Israelis”, Wafa reported.

Abbas told Trump that peace was a “strategic choice” for the Palestinian people that should lead to the “establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel”.